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The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth audiobook
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946)
Two stuffy English scientists, always looking to further their scientific knowledge, create a substance called Herakleophorbia, which in its fourth incarnation -- known as Herakleophorbia IV -- has the special ability of making things increase greatly in size. As the scientists begin experimentation on some chicks, the substance is misused by some "country folk" who don't take it seriously and soon Herakleophorbia Read more [...]

The Sleeper Awakes audiobook
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946)
The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest, he has become the richest man in the world. He has been the famous Sleeper for centuries. A fanatic socialist, the main character awakes to see his nightmares realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The people adore him, and their masters Read more [...]

The First Men in the Moon audiobook
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946)
Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind" two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating.
Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, helped him build a sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an expedition to the Read more [...]

The Island of Dr. Moreau audiobook
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946)
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells, addressing ideas of society and community, human nature and identity, religion, Darwinism, and eugenics.
When the novel was written in the late 19th century, England's scientific community was engulfed by debates on animal vivisection. Interest groups were even formed to tackle the issue: the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection was formed Read more [...]

The Time Machine audiobook
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946)
H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as "The Time Traveller" tells the tale of his journey to the year 802,701 A.D. and beyond, where he witnesses the end of human civilization as we know it, as well as the beginning of the end of the world. This original time-travel story has been copied many times, but never improved upon. (Summary by Mark Nelson)
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantastic Read more [...]